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title: Isaiah 1:16 (JPS 1917) — Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from befo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil; Who acts: you. Isaiah 1:16 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Isaiah 1:16 · JPS 1917

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Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wash, make, put away, cease, do · **To what, where:** you, evil, eyes

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This is Isaiah 1:16 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:ISA:16
# text = Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;
1	Wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Mine	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	cease	cease	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 3 | **put away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the evil of your doings |  | Mine eyes |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent evil=Goal |
| 4 | **cease** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | evil |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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רַחֲצוּ֙ הִזַּכּ֔וּ הָסִ֛ירוּ רֹ֥עַ מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם מִנֶּ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י חִדְל֖וּ הָרֵֽעַ׃

[Isaiah 1:16: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.1.16/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:ISA:16` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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